Tom Christison

The Price of Eggs
Stone, Aluminium Plate, Monotype, and Latex Paint
20 Runs
480mm x 380mm
2004

I have been interested in lithography since I printed my first one. The options that are available on stone are amazing. It has taken me a long time - twenty years, to get to where I am now with the work, combining lithography, monotype and latex to create unique impressions.

My latest work deals with creating simple narratives about lifecycles, passages of time, regeneration and the food chain.

The prints are a combination of lithography, monotype and latex paint. They are built up through many layers of oil based ink - printed from stones and plates, and latex paint which is applied by hand. The images are hand drawn on litho stones and aluminium plates using a variety of techniques.

Colour latex ‘flats’ are registered to the key images using clear Mylar, which in turn are printed in colour. This process of using coloured flats gives the prints a very painterly look, as well as a very physical surface. Commonly each print will have gone through the press as many as fifteen to twenty-five times.